reft

[ reft ]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of reave ¹.
2. a simple past tense and past participle of reave ².

reft

/ rɛft /

verb

1. See reave
   a past tense and past participle of reave 1

Example Sentences

No children have we to lament, no wives to wail our fall; The traitor's and the spoiler's hand have reft our hearths of all.

From Project Gutenberg

As like as not, you are reft from a last wave to the city's unresponsive and dingy back by the roar and suffocation of a tunnel.

From Project Gutenberg

Shall ye range the pathless forest dreary day and darksome night, Reft of all save native virtue, clad in native, inborn might?

From Project Gutenberg

Thy home, it is reft from thee; thy reputation, it is a scoff; thine honour, it is a ghost that shall haunt thee!

From Project Gutenberg

He would have reft it from the said George; but he resisted, alleging that the Frenchman did wrong.

From Project Gutenberg